Portrait Gallery Of Eminent Men And Women Of Europe And America Complete In Two Volumes Embracing History, Statesmanship, Naval And Military Life, Philosophy, The Drama, Science, Literature And Art by Duyckinck, Evert A - 1873

New York, Ny: Johnson, Wilson And Company. First Edition 1873 Complete In 2 Volumes Full Padded Maroon Leather, Six Compartments On Spine W/Raised Bands, Gilt Lettering And Tooling, All Original Thick Leather Boards With Heavily Incised Decorative Around Wonderful Gilt Title And Decorative Center Of Both Volumes Front And Rear Covers. Fully Gilded Page Block Edges. Illustrated With Numerous Highly Finished Steel Engravings From Original Portraits By The Most Celebrated Artists. Biographies Include: Marie Antoinette, George Washington, Goethe, Lafayette, Jefferson, Napoleon, Lord Nelson, Lord Byron, Andrew Jackson, Prince Albert, Faraday, Henry Clay, Bismarck, Dickens, Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Disraeli, Florence Nightingale, Tennyson, U.S. Grant, Gen. Sherman, Longfellow, Charlotte Bronte, Napoleon Iii, And Many More. Red Leather Faded To Brown On Spine, Rubbing To Extremities Especially The Tips And Spine Edges, Scrape To Center Of Volume 2 Front Cover, Gilt Page Block With Only A Few Light Scratches, Ex Private Lib Sticker To Inside Rear Covers And On Free End-Paper Preceding Title Page, All Engravings Have Tissue Protecting Present So Bright And Like New, A Few Smudges To Edges Of A Few Pages, Vol 1 Has Large Brown Spot From Something Once Left Inside Front Cover That Has Bled Through End-Paper But No Further. Magnificent Originally Bound Set Solid And Complete, Scarce In Any Condition But This Is Very Nice. Pics Posted Later And More Always Available On Request. Very, Very Heavy Books. . Very Good. Full-Leather. First Edition. 1873.